There were too many factors working against them, especially things like a prolonged time without healthcare and poor education.īarbara Ehrenreich is a prominent journalist and writer who went undercover as a low wage worker to find out how non-skilled workers are able to maintain the basic standard of life. In the video, Ehrenreich claimed that “people are living in a state of emergency, not even at a sustainable level of suffering in many cases due to a lack of food, inadequate housing, and insufficient childcare”.
I have also come to rethink the limitations of the welfare system in America. Eventually, we end up with finding out that we are being served by the ones who we thought of being served by and who we thought we were serving. Often times we say that we serve someone or something but that all comes from our own pride and superiority. I was very impressed at her angle of perspective to consider low-wage workers as the major “philanthropists” of our society. In this video, Barbara Ehrenreich went about trying to mimic their life style and work ethic firsthand, living as a low-wage worker. 256 pages.The film “Nickel and Dimed: From the American Ruling Class” shows the life of low-wage workers in Americas society. Topics include poverty, class dynamics, survival, equality, and jobs/careers/work. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity-a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts, and one job is simply not enough: you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Ehrenreich was inspired by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life, but how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. Nickel and Dimed is a nonfiction account of Barbara Ehrenreich's time spent undercover reporting on millions of Americans who work for poverty-level wages.
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